Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
MS 0735.6+7421 |
| Object Description: |
Galaxy Cluster |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 07h 41m 50.20s
Dec. +74° 14' 51.00" |
| Constellation: |
Camelopardalis |
| Distance: |
About 2.6 billion light years |
| Dimensions: |
This image is 4 arcminutes (3 million light-years or 900 kiloparsecs) wide. |
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| About the Data |
| Mission: |
Hubble Space Telescope
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Chandra X-ray Observatory |
Very Large Array |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
ACIS |
"A" Configuration |
| Wavelength: |
optical |
x-ray |
radio |
| Exposure Date: |
February 1, 2006 |
November 30, 2003 |
October 24, 2004 |
| HST Data Description:
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This image was created from HST data from the following proposal 10495: B. McNamara (Ohio University), M. Wise (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and P. Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory). |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo) |
| Release Date: |
November 2, 2006 |
| Color |
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by several different instruments from the three missions listed above. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
CXO x-ray blue
HST visible green
VLA radio red |
| Orientation: |
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